I see I forgot to add my last Hobbit themed print. This one entitled Huine Taurë Ninque Sulë or Dark Forest, White Spirit is the result of the first layered project I had started last week. I'm not totally happy with it for reasons you can read about on my blog The Melete Project. But as you can see it's from the Mirkwood forest adventure when the white hart jumps out at the company startling them. My reaction to the print is "mmmehhh".

Ladies, I have been both swamped with work and dealing with family health issues, so I am most remiss in responding to the wonderful artistic contributions over the past few weeks.

marbretherese -- Your Yavanna is just STUNNING! How lovely and organic she is!

Riv -- I love your Laketown concept. Just splendid! This new style is really bringing out some wonderful shapes, interpretations, and colors for you. Merry, you are correct that we don't often get illustrations of Laketown. However, in addition to The Professor's wonderful depiction, Alan Lee did two illustrations for the Houghton Mifflin 60th anniversary edition -- one of Laketown proper, and the other of Smaug "crashing down from on high in ruin," although to be truthful, we don't see much of Laketown in that one, just lots of "ruin."

Philipa -- I think your white stag is quite lovely and "ghostly," although perhaps the end result is less satisfactory to you in reality than it is to me online. I am definitely enjoying your blog!

As always, ladies, I am amazed and quite envious of your considerable talents!

Lindariel

“Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be.”

Hopefully Laketown will be as the book. I think they got too carried away with Bree being threatening in FotR, to ramp up the sense of danger. There was enough danger with the Nine without making the Prancing Pony feel like a Saturday Night inner city dive for ne'er do wells.

Now let the song begin! Let us sing together
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather...

This has been an interesting series to watch develop, RR. I can appreciate the organic shapes and the suggestion of different materials and, as always, your beautiful use of colors. What I like best here is the suggesion of a starry sky behind the 'exotic shapes'. I suppose that if elves had to live in caves, they would make the darkness look like a starry night!

Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West,
for your King shall come again,
and he shall dwell among you
all the days of your life.

I like this VERY much. I particularly like that the designs in the middle of the gate almost suggest "The Green Man." Thranduil, the Elvenking, comes off very much like "The Green Man" in The Hobbit, at least to me. There's something really fey and feral about him. Very, very nice!

Lindariel

“Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be.”